US-Israel-Iran War News Updates: Iran Closes Strait Of Hormuz After Israeli Attacks On Lebanon

1. As a fragile ceasefire between US-Iran takes effect, the White House said Iran has provided assurances that it is allowing ships to pass through the crucial waterway. However, Tehran says it has closed the strait following Israel’s attacks on Lebanon.

2. Iranian President Seyed Abbas Araghchi said the United States must choose between pursuing a ceasefire or continuing the war through Israel. “The world is witnessing the massacres in Lebanon. The ball is in the U.S.’s court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments,” he added.

3. The United States will be sending Vice President JD Vance, along with senior advisers Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, for talks with Iran in Pakistan. White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the first round of negotiations would take place in Islamabad on Saturday morning local time.

4. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said any ceasefire with Iran would not extend to Hezbollah. “A ceasefire with Iran will not include Hezbollah. We are continuing to hit Hezbollah.”

5. The death toll in Lebanon has risen to at least 254, with 1,165 people reported injured in Israeli attacks across the country on Wednesday.

6. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk condemned Israeli strikes across Lebanon on Wednesday.

7. The White House has said the United States continues to reject any uranium enrichment within Iran, reiterating that Trump did not agree to what it described as a "wish list" submitted by Tehran.

Markets have rallied and oil prices have come down, Alex Holmes of the Economist Intelligence Unit told Al Jazeera. But he said too much certainty cannot be placed on whether the announced ceasefire will hold.

“So key to watch will be any signs coming from the Israelis, the Iranians and other parties over whether this ceasefire will hold,” Holmes said.

“There’s going to be a big gap to bridge in negotiations so the markets are still in wait-and-see mode,” he said.

“And even though they have moved, obviously prices of oil are still a lot higher than they were in late February,” he said.

According to Reuters, US crude futures dropped around 16 percent to $94.59 a barrel, while Brent futures also slid 15 percent to $92.35 per barrel after news of the ceasefire.

In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei surged about 5 percent while South Korea’s Kospi rose 6 percent, triggering a halt in trading.

The White House has posted a statement from President Donald J. Trump on Iran.

Trump said: “Following my conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir of Pakistan, and subject to Iran agreeing to the complete, immediate and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz, I have agreed to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.”

He described the move as “a double sided ceasefire” and said the two-week period would allow a 10-point proposal from Iran to be finalised. Trump added that the US and Iran had already agreed on almost all points of past contention and that the pause would help reach a long-term agreement.

The US Defense Department will hold a news conference after President Trump’s ceasefire announcement.

The Pentagon says US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine will speak to journalists about “Operation Epic Fury” at 8am local time on Wednesday morning [12:00 GMT].

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a group of Iran-backed armed factions, said it will halt its operations in Iraq and the wider region for two weeks. The move comes after a ceasefire between th e US and Iran was announced.

Iran and Oman will be allowed to charge fees on ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz under a two-week ceasefire deal mediated by Pakistan, according to the Associated Press.

AP, citing an unnamed regional official, reported that Iran plans to use the funds for reconstruction. It was not clear how Oman would use its share.

The official, who was directly involved in the negotiations, spoke anonymously as they were not authorised to discuss internal discussions.

Iran and Oman both have territorial rights over the Strait of Hormuz.

Michael Kugelman said Pakistan secured one of its biggest diplomatic wins in years, defying doubts about its ability to handle a complex, high-stakes effort.

He added that the key outcome was helping avert a potential catastrophe in Iran.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will suspend strikes on Iran for two weeks, on the condition that Iran immediately opens the straits and stops all attacks on the US, Israel and countries in the region.

It also confirmed that the two-week ceasefire does not apply to Lebanon.

The statement added that Israel supports US efforts to ensure Iran no longer poses a nuclear, missile and terror threat, noting that Iran does not currently possess nuclear weapons, unlike Israel.

Al Jadeed TV reported that Israeli forces shelled the town of Baraachit in southern Lebanon.

The reported attack follows Netanyahu’s statement that the regional ceasefire between the US, Israel and their allies does not include Lebanon.

Earlier, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who mediated the deal, said the parties had agreed to an “immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere”.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has welcomed the announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said.

Guterres urged all parties to comply with international law and follow the terms of the ceasefire to help move toward lasting and comprehensive peace in the region.

He said an end to hostilities is urgently needed to protect civilian lives and reduce human suffering.

Dujarric also confirmed that the UN chief’s personal envoy, Jean Arnault, is in the region to support efforts toward lasting peace.

Several Lebanese news outlets reported that an Israeli air raid targeted an ambulance in the town of Qlaileh, near the coastal city of Tyre.

Lebanese health officials said Israel has been regularly targeting medics and rescue crews across the country.

Donald Trump’s threats to wipe out Iran’s “whole civilisation” drew sharp criticism from across the political spectrum.

More than four dozen Democrats, including Jamie Raskin, Robert Garcia and Zoe Lofgren, called for his immediate removal by invoking the 25th Amendment, describing his remarks as “unhinged” and akin to “war crimes”.

Some Republicans also distanced themselves. Senator Ron Johnson said he hoped the comments were “bluster” and stressed the US is not at war with the Iranian people, while Marjorie Taylor Greene also criticised the remarks.

The White House rejected the Democrats’ calls, with spokesman Davis Ingle calling them “pathetic” and accusing Democrats of being “deranged, weak, and ineffective”, adding that their approval ratings are at historic lows.

The US president said the country will help manage the “traffic buildup” in the Strait of Hormuz, in a post shared on TruthSocial.

He said the US would be “loading up with supplies of all kinds” and “hangin’ around” to ensure everything goes well, adding that “this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!!”

Trump did not give details on what the US role would involve but said “big money will be made” and that Iran can begin reconstruction.

Earlier, the Associated Press reported that under the ceasefire deal, Iran would collect fees from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz to fund reconstruction.

Iranian-American congresswoman Yassamin Ansari said she is “momentarily relieved” by the ceasefire but described Donald Trump as “dangerous and unfit” for office.

She said the two-week pause in attacks brings relief to 90 million Iranians who “just spent the worst 24 hours of their lives” fearing a possible nuclear catastrophe, stressing that civilians, not the regime, would have been affected.

Ansari said the agreement “doesn’t change anything” about Trump’s fitness for office, accusing him of threatening genocide and war crimes.

She cited his remarks that “a whole civilization will die” and that Iran could be taken “back to the stone ages” as evidence he is “mentally unstable, unhinged, and unfit for office or any position of authority”.

As previously reported, dozens of Democratic members of Congress have called for invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump, questioning his ability to carry out presidential duties.

A former adviser to Barack Obama said Donald Trump’s Middle East policy and his decision to launch a military operation in Iran have created a “catastrophic situation even in the best of circumstances”.

In a post on X, Ben Rhodes, who served as Obama’s deputy national security adviser and speechwriter, described the move to go to war with Iran as “a profoundly shameful episode in American history no matter what happens next”.

He said the US global standing has been “obliterated” as a result of Trump’s actions.

Rhodes also warned of further global economic fallout and said the decisions had “strengthened and enriched” Russian President Vladimir Putin.

US President Donald Trump said the United States had achieved a “total and complete victory” after agreeing to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, in an interview with AFP.

“Total and complete victory. 100 percent. No question about it,” he said in a brief phone interview shortly after announcing the deal.

Trump also said Iran’s uranium stockpiles would be “perfectly taken care of” under the agreement and added that China helped bring Iran to the negotiating table.

Ross Harrison, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC, said it remains unclear whether the two-week truce is a tactical pause or a real diplomatic opening, but noted it has created “off ramps” from the conflict.

He said the situation just hours earlier had been at a “very, very dangerous inflection point”, with the US threatening drastic measures and Iran holding its position.

Harrison said the US showed it could escalate vertically by raising stakes and threatening military action, while Iran still had options to escalate horizontally by widening the conflict to the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf Arab states.

Japan and Indonesia have welcomed the ceasefire between the US and Iran, urging restraint and diplomacy. Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Yvonne Mewengkang called on all sides to respect sovereignty and territorial integrity, while Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara described the two-week truce as a "positive move" and said Tokyo is awaiting a final agreement.

As Iran and US reach a two-week ceasefire, Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir Omar Abdullah questioned on X about "what exactly did this 39 day war achieve for the US?"

The agreement between the two counties has allowed the Strait of Hormus to reopen. Abdullah stated that the strait "was open & freely available to everyone to use before the war started."

Yair Lapid, Israel's Leader of the Opposition said that "Israel wasn't even at the table when decisions were made concerning the core of our national security. "

He continue to state that the military carried out everything that was asked of it, the public demonstrated resilience, however, "Netanyahu failed politically, failed strategically, and didn't meet a single one of the goals that he himself set."

The US-Iran temporary ceasefire was reached on April 8, less than two hours before his deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face devastating attacks on its civilian infrastructure.

Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the leader of the Palestinian National Initiative, said that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "is the biggest loser from the ceasefire and is trying to sabotage it by escalating military attacks on Lebanon, after having been the main instigator of the war in the region."

Israel has issued an immediate evacuation order for residents in Lebanon’s city of Tyre, warning of an imminent strike.

In a post on X, an Israeli military spokesperson cited threats from Hezbollah, directing the order at those living in the al-Abbasiyah and Shabriha districts, and urging them to move north of the Zahrani River.

Despite the US–Iran ceasefire, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the agreement does not extend to Lebanon.

Large crowds in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora celebrated the announcement of a 15-day ceasefire in the US–Israel–Iran conflict, marking a moment of relief after weeks of escalating tensions.

President of EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, thanked Pakistan for mediating the two-week ceasefire between Iran and the US, saying that "now it is crucial that negotiations for an enduring solution to this conflict continue."

External Affairs Minister of India S. Jaishankar will pay an official visit to the United Arab Emirates from 11-12 April, 2026.

"During the visit, EAM will meet the leadership of the UAE to review close cooperation and deepen the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the two countries," MEA said in a press release.

Ukraine has welcomed the US–Iran ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, with Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha urging Washington to show similar “decisiveness” in ending Russia’s war in Ukraine.

“American decisiveness works. We believe it is time for sufficient decisiveness to force Moscow to cease fire and end its war against Ukraine,” Sybiha said in a post on X.

President of the European Council Antonio Costa said that the European Union has welcomed the announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, urging all parties to uphold its terms to ensure sustainable peace in the region.

It said it remains in close contact with regional partners and stands ready to support ongoing diplomatic efforts, while also expressing appreciation to Pakistan and other parties involved in facilitating the agreement.

The Israeli military said it has ceased fire in its operation against Iran in line with directives from the political leadership, while remaining on high alert to respond to any violations.

It added that overnight strikes targeted missile launch sites and launchers across Iran to significantly degrade its capabilities.

At the same time, the military said it continues targeted ground operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and will keep operating across all fronts to defend Israel.

Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said nothing about Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its "aggressively expansionist policies in the occupied West Bank."

The role played by Pakistan in bringing about the ceasefire is a severe setback to both the substance and style of Modi’s "highly personalised diplomacy," Ramesh posted on X.

He continued to say that the effort to isolate Pakistan over its continued support for terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, and to portray it globally as a failed state, appears to have fallen short, unlike the diplomatic pressure built after the Mumbai attacks. That a country grappling with economic distress and heavy reliance on external aid could still assert such influence raises questions about the Modi government’s strategy on engagement and narrative management.

He stated that the government has also not clarified why Operation Sindoor was abruptly halted on May 10, 2025, with the first announcement coming from the US Secretary of State and the US President repeatedly claiming credit for the move.

Despite Pakistan’s ceasefire announcement, Israel continues to attack on Lebanon, issuing fresh evacuation orders in the south and signalling an escalation of operations.

Israeli officials have maintained that the US–Iran ceasefire does not apply to Lebanon, with ongoing strikes and warnings to civilians to evacuate areas such as Tyre ahead of further military action.

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares stated that it is unacceptable for Israel to continue its invasion of "a sovereign country like Lebanon while other fronts halt fire. Lebanon territorial integrity must be respected immediately, he added.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian made his first remark since the announcement of the ceasefire, stating that the ceasefire was the fruit of the blood of Khamenei and the achievement of the presence of all the people on the scene.

"From today onward, we will also remain together. Whether in the field of diplomacy, whether in the field of defense, whether on the street scene, and whether in the arena of service provision," he said.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Wednesday that Iran has confirmed it will attend talks with the United States in Islamabad on Friday.

It was not immediately clear who would represent Tehran at the negotiations.

Sharif’s office said he spoke for more than 45 minutes with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, thanking Iran’s leadership for agreeing to a ceasefire and accepting Pakistan’s offer to host the talks.

Pezeshkian thanked Pakistan for its efforts and conveyed his best wishes to the country’s people, the office said.

AP

At the close of his weekly general audience on Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV described the ceasefire as a “sign of true hope” and again urged the faithful to join a peace prayer vigil scheduled for Saturday at St. Peter’s Basilica.

A day earlier, the pope criticised U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilisation, calling it “truly unacceptable” and warning that attacks on civilian infrastructure would violate international law.

Meanwhile, Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani welcomed the ceasefire as a positive development for both regional peace and Italy’s economy. Posting on social media, he wrote: “Iran cannot be allowed to possess nuclear weapons, and it is right that the U.S. does not bomb the civilian population.”

New Delhi welcomed the ceasefire brokered between Iran and the US on Wednesday.

In a statement released by MEA, India asserts that "we have continuously advocated earlier, de-escalation, dialogue and diplomacy are essential to bring an early end to the ongoing conflict".

Additionally acknowleding that the conflict has already caused immense suffering to people and disrupted global energy supply and trade networks, it stated, "We expect that unimpeded freedom of navigation and global flow of commerce would prevail through the Strait of Hormuz".

A series of Israeli strikes hit several areas in central Beirut Wednesday without warning, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Loud booms could be heard throughout the city and smoke was rising from several points.

It was not immediately clear what was targeted, but several of the strikes were in busy commercial locations.

Since the outbreak of the latest Israel-Hezbollah war on March 2, Israel has regularly struck southern and eastern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs but rarely in the center of Beirut.

There was no immediate report on the number of casualties.

The strikes came hours after a ceasefire was announced in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Israel has said the agreement does not extend to Lebanon, although mediator Pakistan said it does.

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Israel’s military said it struck more than 100 Hezbollah targets within 10 minutes across Beirut, southern Lebanon and the Beqaa region, describing it as the largest coordinated strike in the current war.

According to the military, the targets included missile launchers, command centres and intelligence infrastructure.

Many of the sites were located in civilian areas, with Israel accusing Hezbollah of using civilians as human shields. “The State of Lebanon and its civilians must refuse Hezbollah’s entrenchment in civilian areas and its weapons build up capabilities,” the military said.

Trump announced on his Truth Social account that any country supplying military weapons to Iran will be tariffed by the US.

He wrote on Wednesday, just hours after the 2-week ceasefire was announced, "A Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately. There will be no exclusions or exemptions! President DJT"

In less than 40 days, using just 10 percent of the US combat power, the country dismantled “one of the world’s most largest militaries”, Hegseth says.

He claimed Iran proved itself unable to defend itself, adding that the US-Israeli joint operation against Tehran achieved “every single objective on plan, on schedule”.

The US secretary of defense said “Iran’s navy is at the bottom of the sea … Iran no longer has an air defence system … their missile programme is functionally destroyed”.

The US Secretary of State Pete Hegseth also says “the new Iranian regime understood that a deal was far better than the fate that awaited them”.

He listed a number of senior Iranian leaders killed in the US-Israeli attacks.

“This new regime was out of options and out of time, so they cut a deal. They know that this agreement means they will never, ever possess a nuclear weapon,” Hegseth added.

Nawaf Salam says Israel is attacking densely populated Lebanese neighbourhoods and killing “defenceless civilians”.

Israel “remains utterly heedless of all regional and international efforts to halt the war – not to mention its utter disregard for the principles of international law and international humanitarian law, which it has never respected”, the Lebanese prime minister said.

Israeli air strikes have targeted the cemetery in the Bekaa Valley village of Shmestar, killing at least 10 people and injuring four others who were attending a funeral, Lebanon’s National News Agency reports.

The agency said rescuers and medics are still operating at the scene.

Avichay Adraee, an Israeli military spokesman, has claimed – without any evidence – that Hezbollah has repositioned from the southern suburbs of Beirut into other areas of the city.

Echoing similar refrains Israel has used to justify its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza, Adraee blamed the Lebanese group for putting residents of the Lebanese capital in danger.

In a statement shared by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency, the IRGC says it intercepted and destroyed a Hermes 900 drone over Lar, a city in the southwestern province of Fars.

In a televised address to his Cabinet, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Pakistan played a key role in securing the pause in fighting, crediting his team, including Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, for sustained diplomatic engagement with U.S. and Iranian leaders.

He described the truce as a “first step” toward broader peace and expressed hope that the talks being held Friday in Islamabad would help turn the fragile ceasefire into a lasting resolution.

“The war has only been temporarily averted, but this is an important beginning,” Sharif said.

He did not specify who would represent the U.S. or Iran.

Lebanese rescue workers used forklifts to clear burned cars and debris blocking a major road in Beirut after Israeli strikes hit the area.

Dozens of charred vehicles and twisted metal covered an entire residential block as rescuers searched through the rubble for survivors, with smoke still rising hours later.

Associated Press journalists at the scene reported seeing bodies inside parked cars and on the road at the busy Corniche al-Mazraa intersection, a key route linking Beirut’s city centre, airport and suburbs.

Despite the 2-week ceasefire, certain Iranian Embassies have tweeted on X that they "do not trust the enemy', the Iranian consulate in Hyderabad is one of the recent ones to echo such a warning.

They wrote on X, "IRGC: The enemy has always been cunning; we do not trust him and our hand is on the trigger".

Earlier today, the embassy in Zimbabwe shared on X the speech delivered by The Supreme National Security Council of Iran on the ceasefire. Herein they quoted, "Our fingers remain on the trigger; the slightest transgression by the enemy shall be met with an immediate and forceful response of the highest magnitude".

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif reacted to the reported violations of the ceasefire on X calling for the countries to respect the terms of the agreed-upon 2-week ceasefire.

He wrote, "Violations of ceasefire have been reported at few places across the conflict zone which undermine the spirit of peace process. I earnestly and sincerely urge all parties to exercise restraint and respect the ceasefire for two weeks, as agreed upon, so that diplomacy can take a lead role towards peaceful settlement of the conflict."

Iran on Wednesday halted traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and warned it would withdraw from the ceasefire with the United States if Israel continues attacks on Lebanon amid the ongoing West Asia conflict.

According to Iran’s Fars News and Tasnim news agency, oil tanker movement through the strategic waterway was suspended after Israeli strikes on Lebanon. Israel had earlier said the ceasefire terms did not apply to Lebanon because of Hezbollah’s involvement.

Spokesperson for the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Parliament:

'In response to the brutal Zionist aggression against Lebanon, navigation in the Strait of Hormuz must be immediately halted, and a strong and decisive blow must be dealt to prevent this rogue entity and cancerous tumor from destabilizing the region.

The Lebanese have made sacrifices for us, and we should not abandon them for a moment.Either a ceasefire on all fronts, or no ceasefire at all."

⁠Kuwait’s ⁠Interior Ministry is reporting “severe material damage” at ⁠several vital facilities of the ⁠Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and the energy and ‌water resources ministry after what it said was an Iranian drone attack.

The ministry said fire broke out at some of the attacked sites, which include oil facilities, three power stations and water desalination plants.

Lebanon’s Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine says the death toll of 89 is expected to rise as people remain under the rubble.

“The needs are increasing, but the scale of the assault is also huge,” Nassereddine told Al Jazeera.

“We are facing a dangerous escalation that happened in Lebanon, an Israeli aggression with more than 100 air strikes that targeted innocent civilians in Beirut, Dahiyeh, Bekaa, Mount Lebanon and the south.”

The Israeli attacks also targeted hospitals, medical centres and ambulances, the minister said.

The US embassy in Baghdad has warned citizens of further attacks after it said Iran-backed armed groups hit a diplomatic support centre at the airport.

“Iraqi terrorist militia groups aligned with Iran conducted multiple drone attacks in the vicinity of the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center and Baghdad International Airport on April 8,” the embassy claimed in a statement on X.

“They may intend to conduct additional terrorist attacks against US citizens and targets associated with the United States throughout Iraq.”

In a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump said: "Numerous Agreements, Lists, and Letters are being sent out by people that have absolutely nothing to do with the U.S.A. / Iran Negotiation, in many cases, they are total Fraudsters, Charlatans, and WORSE. They will be rapidly exposed after our Federal Investigation is completed. There is only one group of meaningful “POINTS” that are acceptable to the United States, and we will be discussing them behind closed doors during these Negotiations.

These are the POINTS that are the basis on which we agreed to a CEASEFIRE. It is something that is reasonable, and can easily be dispensed with. It’s very much like Fake News CNN last night, headlining a “source” that had no power or authority to write a Letter claiming great authority."

Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Iranian state media reports.

The US must choose between continued war via Israel or a ceasefire, Iran’s FM says.

“The conditions for a ceasefire between Iran and the United States are clear and explicit: America must choose either a ceasefire or the continuation of war through Israel; both cannot coexist,” Araghchi wrote on Telegram.

Leavitt at the White House says US Vice President JD Vance, as well as top Trump advisers Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, will take part in negotiations in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.

“The first round of those talks will take place on Saturday morning local time, and we know we look forward to those in-person meetings,” Leavitt told reporters.

Spain PM Pedro Sanchez, in a post on X said:

"Just today, Netanyahu launches his harshest attack against Lebanon since the offensive began.

His contempt for life and international law is intolerable.

It's time to speak clearly:

- Lebanon must be included in the ceasefire.

- The international community must condemn this new violation of international law.

- The European Union must suspend its Association Agreement with Israel.

- And there must be no impunity for these criminal acts."

The sound of air defences in action can be heard in Tehran and some areas of Alborz province, according to the Iranian state news agency IRNA.

IRNA said the air defences were targeting drones, according to initial reports, but their launch point remains unclear.

At least 254 people have been killed and 1,165 wounded in Israeli attacks across Lebanon today, the Lebanese Civil Defence reports.⁠

The Lebanese army has announced it will shut a key bridge in the country’s south after what it described as an Israeli threat to strike it. Israeli officials say the bridge is being used by Hezbollah for military purposes.

The crossing is the last remaining link between the north and south of the Litani River in the Tyre region, where thousands of families continue to stay despite Israeli evacuation warnings.

Since the war began, Israel has destroyed six bridges over the Litani, effectively splitting southern Lebanon in two.

Speaker of Islamic Republic of Iran’s Parliament MB Ghalibaf said that bilateral ceasefire or negotiations are unreasonable in the situation where the US has already violated three clauses of the 10-pointers proposal presented by Iran.

US President Donald Trump had mentioned on Truth Social that the 10 pointers are a "workable basis on which to negotiate."

Iranian President Seyed Abbas Araghchi said that the US must choose between a ceasefire or continued war via Israel. "The world sees the massacres in Lebanon. The ball is in the U.S. court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments," he added.

Trump’s spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, stated that the 10-point proposal put forward by Iran as the basis for a ceasefire differs from the version publicly released by the government in Tehran, indicating a discrepancy between the two.

The proposal also stated that the United States would recognise Iran’s right to enrich uranium, alongside provisions for sanctions relief and a permanent cessation of attacks on Iranian territory. "The president’s red lines, namely the end of Iranian enrichment in Iran, have not changed," Leavitt said, Al Jazeera reported.